Alex Hohoi, Jessica Tapp and Annette Hubber are the newest staff members to join the First Languages Australia team.

Over the next two years, we will be consulting with communities across Australia to prepare a plan to strengthen the languages sector. To support this process, we are looking two new excellent and community connected people to support this work.

If you have your own children’s song that includes your language, or you are a performer who would enjoy the chance to sing one of the songs chosen for the program, please send us a video of yourself singing (and playing if you are also a musician). A short video from your phone is fine.

ABC and First Languages Australia have announced the launch of Yarrabil, First Nations Children’s Songs Series, made in collaboration with ABC Education.

Through the coming months, First Languages Australia will begin work with Aboriginal Interpreting WA and relevant states and territories, toward a national framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander interpreting.

First Languages Australia remains a partner in the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA).

The First Nations Languages Education Program opened to applications in March 2024.

With support from the First Nations Languages Education Program, we have begun facilitating monthly professional development sessions around language teaching and learning.

The National Languages Policy Partnership continues to meet four times a year, most recently meeting for the sixth time in Gimuy. These policy meetings are paving the way for the partnership approach and government transformation required to achieve Target 16 of Closing the Gap.

With the intent of encouraging networking and information sharing between language programs, we have begun hosting monthly info sessions for language centres and programs.

The ABC is inviting language centres and programs to apply for an ABC staff member to be seconded to their organisation to assist with a specific project or activity.

First Languages Australia are recruiting.

Annalee Little and Jennifer Kniveton attended the West Kimberley Language Workshop in June.

Beau Williams, Annalee Little and Jillian Bowie travelled to Thursday Island for the Torres Strait Islander Language Symposium which was held in June.

In May, the Revised Australian Curriculum: Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages was released.

The secretariat met in person for the first time in March for a two-day reflection and planning session.